Research Dossier (async)
research_taskCommission an ASYNC, CITED research dossier from DC Hub's corpora (news, deals, facilities, market deep-dive narratives + live market components) — a decision-ready analyst brief with [n] citations, not a lookup. Requires a key (one claim_free_key call), 5 dossiers/day. Submits the question, waits up to ~35s for completion, and returns the finished dossier inline when ready; if still running, returns {task_id} — call research_task task_id= to fetch it. Params: question (required for a new dossier, min 12 chars) OR task_id (poll an earlier one). Typical completion under a minute. Answers "write me a cited brief on this", "what do recent deals say about gas-bridged power". Try: research_task question="What do recent deals say about gas-bridged power for data centers in ERCOT?". Do NOT use for a single fact (use search_intelligence / semantic_search); this synthesizes ACROSS sources with citations.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| task_id | No | Poll an earlier submission: the task_id returned by a previous research_task call | |
| question | No | The research question (min 12 chars) — omit when polling with task_id |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| quota | No | Caller quota state (remaining calls, tier) when available. | |
| _entity | No | Payload class discriminator (e.g. facility|market|iso_grid|queue_results|deal|report|response) — branch on this before parsing the rest. | |
| citation | No | Machine-readable citation: how to attribute DC Hub (dchub.cloud) for this payload. Normally an OBJECT {source, url, license, cite_as, retrieved_at}; a bare string is accepted and carries the attribution line itself. | |
| provenance | No | Collection-level provenance block: {source, method, as_of, verification_counts, cite_url_template, license, cite_as}. Quote the verification level when citing. | |
| _front_door | No | In-band front-door hint (first workflow-entry tool of a session): call plan_query(intent) first for the ordered multi-step plan. | |
| _return_loop | No | Suggested next-session delta call (get_changes since=24h) so you pull only what changed. | |
| site_evaluation_handoff | No | Pre-built follow-up calls (analyze_site / get_water_risk args) when the payload carries coordinates — an array of {tool, parameters, why} entries. |